Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-05-28
ART STUDY.
A Picture of Girl-students' Life in Paris
 Atelier.


 writer in Harper's Bazar, is what one of these girl-students says herself in some notes which 1 asked her to make for me- in addition to the sketches made by another girl at the same atelier. give them just as they are:
 ''For any girls coming to study art in Paris, to live as we do in a quiet hotel is far better and more economical than to board with a French family or pen sion, unless with a wish to master the language. Nothing can be more simple than our habits. We have one room, and we descend to table d'hote when we choose-not otherwise. We cook our own breakfast over spirit lamp at s A. M., and go straight to the atelier, where we work till 12. Then deieuner at a cremerie, and work again til P M. Returning to our hotel we can dine if we like, but more often we boil our kettle, have tea and an egg, and spend the evening over a book. It sounds rather a monotonous life, yet we all find it very attractive, and the weeks slip by only too fast.
 ''Even the regular morning walk is pleasant At the hour the Quartier Latin is filled with street sellers wheel ing their stalls about, housewives mar keting in their white caps, and little children in black pinafores (not white ones) being taken to school by their bonne or garcon. Streams of men, too, on their way to business, newspaper in one hand and roll in the other, inn ply that hard-working Paris is waking up to itstdaily life.
 ''Our atelier gives us every opportun- 1 ity for the study of character, for in daily work together most peoples na- lures are clearly displayed There is the elderly spinster, prevented from study in her youth, and always enyying | the younger students who have their l life before them. Beside her is patient artist who has been toiling for years without making any visible progress, | but who still hopes to succeed one day. Another, equally hard-working, with her whole soul in her work, sceTns such thing as outward appearance, and her dress, once sesthetic, looks like worn- out robe de chambre slowly melting in to bundle of rags. But few who combine the love of fashion with the, love of art come here in costumes more suited to the Champs Elysees than to our crowded studio, where they are ia serious dangerof rubbing against pallets, l knocking down easels, etc.
 s'Companionship is one of the pleas antest bits of student lite. Our frugal tea parties, when the hostess boils the kettle and sets the table, and we all sit round the fire and discuss the last ex- l hibition, especially our own professors work therein, or the success of one of us in getting into the salon, which is held as a universal triumph to all. Conyer- sation never flags. for some of US have lived at the ends of the earth. and can describe them well, and others are political spirits who belong to debat- ing society, and wish 10 reconstruct the world after their pattern which the rest good-naturedly but resolutely disap- prove. Then where to spend our Sunday afternoons is always an important con sideration. Nearly always We go out of town by road or rail, and after six days spent in the atelier, its close at mosphere rocking with oil and turpen- tine, the smells, sights, and sounds of the country are only too delightful
 '.Such are our pleasures; but after all, the most interesting thing is our work. Every Monday we have the excitement of posing the new model. Me be.-Ts enthusiastically, but Tuesday, after the professor has criticised our drawings, our spirits usually sink little. Lower still they get Wednesday and Thursday; by Friday, when the second professor comes, they are usually down at zero. Saturday finds us in deepest despair,
 only comforted by the resolution to do
 better next week, and that day is gen. erally devoted to water-colors, or pen
 and-ink sketches, or portraits of some
 picturesque fellow-student, usually kept
 as a souvenir when the time for leaving
 the atelicr comes, and the girls who
 have been working together all wlntel
 go their several ways to meet again when and where, who knows? Proba,
 bly, never.
 But still they have done good work poor girls! and mingled it with grea deal of innocent enjoyment AnC , though Paris is, most will agree, not g desirable place for a girl to study il
 alone, still necessity has no law, and ir
 community is much safety. Then young students seem to go through the ordea : unscattered. and, so far as 1 coulC judge, without being unfeminized. Fol
 they are workingwomen, and, as they honestly say, have mo time" for any
 thing but work. It is idleness whicl
 breeds the follies, or worse than foilies
 of many young people, teaching then
 to substitute irritation for love, and tn 7 craving for more admiration instead o that self-devotedness which, howeye b sad, is at least more noble than the sell , ish vanity of a conquering beauty. Tn - busy life of workingwoman may hard l en her little, but it will never degrad h or deteriorate her; and very often, Il if good time
 r If love comes, he will enter, And soon find out the way. z But should he never come, the woma Il learns to do without him. and will be a Il the happier and better woman for hay : : ing put her life to useful account. An s therefore, as help to the many girl . who must work. and do work, I hay given this simple, truthful, and faithfr = picture of how they work in Pari J atelier,
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